Rap Quotes
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I used to do the rap, but people could not handle my flow.
Ben Moody
Evanescence
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Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.
Hailey Rhode Baldwin
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The world is full of bullshitters,
Liars, and triers and quitters,
Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's...
And everybody in your business.
Aceyalone
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Me and Frosted went to get a drink.
But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think.
She ordered potassium, calcium,
Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium.
She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch...
I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.
LL Cool J
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I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
Ad-Rock
The Beastie Boys
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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
Anthony Michael Hall
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Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly;
They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.
Jay-Z
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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong...
Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long!
Then it hit me, Oh please God no,
Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe...
He pulled a fast one on me, yo!
Derrick Lemel Stewart
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
Benjamin Zephaniah
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By now, you should know what you're getting with Pusha T. I've been in this game since 2002, and my name says it all. You know I'm only moved by a certain style of rap. Not that many other styles move me. You have to really be a rapper's rapper for me to like it.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.
Alfonso Cuaron
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With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.
Kevin Gates
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z